Presentation to 78 th session of WP1 26 March 2019
OVERVIEW • Established in April 2018 as a UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund , with the strong support of the SG, ECE/ES, Special Envoy, and GA’s welcome • Aimed to fund concrete actions to achieve SDG road safety targets and align with the 5 pillars of the Decade of Action for Road Safety • Brings together, through MOU, 10 UN participating organizations • Multi-partnership leverages collective and multi- sectoral know-how and fundraising capability • Underpinned by innovative governance , bringing around UN table a variety stakeholders, including UN entities, UN Member States and non-UN actors (private sector, civil society and academia) 2
OVERVIEW • Geared to mobilize public and private funding (to date, $20 million in contributions and pledges); • Supported substantively and operationally by Secretariat housed at UNECE (Geneva); • Fiduciary managed by Multi Partner Trust Fund Office at UNDP (NY); • Grounded on a few founding documents: ✓ Terms of Reference ✓ Global Framework Plan of Action for Road Safety ✓ Funding Priorities and Criteria ✓ Operations Manual ✓ Fundraising Strategy ✓ Rules of Procedure of the Advisory Board and Steering Committee 3
OVERALL GOAL To finance projects and activities to: • Significantly reduce road traffic fatalities and their burden on economies world- wide • Build capacity (of low- and middle- income countries) to improve road safety through strengthened and sustained national RS systems 4
GOVERNANCE STRU RUCTURE 5
GOVERNANCE STRU RUCTURE Advisory Board 2018-20 • Member States - representing five UN regions (5 seats) • Member State donors (3 seats) • UN Secretary- General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety • Chair of the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety (WP.1) - [Chair] • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe • World Bank • World Health Organization • Research and Academia Institutions (2 seats) • Civil Society (2 seats) • Private sector donors (3 seats) • Chair of the UNRSTF Steering Committee 6
GOVERNANCE STRU RUCTURE Steering Committee 2018-20 • UN Regional Commissions (5 seats) • Member State donors (2 seats) • World Health Organization • UN Agency/Department (1 seat) • Private sector donors (2 seats) • Chair of the Multilateral Development Bank WG on Road Safety (1 seat) • Civil Society (1 seat) 7
NEXT STEPS - 2019 • • Full operationalization of the Defining end-game and Trust Fund progressive steps to lead to it • • Building of Secretariat Team Launching first Call for Applications with clear • Developing trust-based, parameters for eligibility transparent and accountable • working methods Increasing Fund’s visibility and fundraising • Collecting data and stories from first harvest/pilot projects 8
VALUE ADDED • Will finance results-oriented, impact-driven activities • Expertise of entire UN System for concerted approach to addressing road safety • Coordination and complementarity with other road safety funds (WB, FIA Foundation) • SDG targets sets inclusive framework (including vulnerable situations) • Adopted Global Framework Plan of Action as bed- rock 9
VALUE ADDED A game changer for improvement of global road safety 10
FUNDRAISING TARGETS • Annual funding potential for the Trust Fund from all sources (private, public and innovative) is estimated at cumulative: 11
5 PILO LOT PRO ROJECTS • Safe road – Scaling safe street designs in Ethiopia • Post-crash response - Improving road traffic fatality data in Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal • Safe user/legislation - Strengthening legal frameworks for road safety in Pakistan and Egypt • Safe user/enforcement - Strengthening speed management in the Philippines • Safe user – Education for vulnerable road users: Capacity development on child responsive urban planning and sustainable urban transport in Paraguay, the Philippines and South Africa. 12
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